How it started
A couple of weeks ago I joined Twitter's #buildinpublic and #indiehackers community. It happened kind of accidentally, but also just right in time.
I’ve closed my software outsourcing company, after trying to grow it for 7 years, due to a lack of clients and was working on my new app, PosterGPT, when I saw a post on Linkedin by @tibo_maker, where he talks about marketing channels and how he built 15+ SaaS applications.
One of those channels was Twitter. By that time I had already launched PosterGPT in ProductHunt, shared some posts on Linkedin, and Instagram, and decided to do a post on Twitter. I had an account there for a long time, but never actively used it.
…and it started
I just cannot call it X (Sorry Elon).
Twitter started to suggest posts from #buildinpublic and #indiehackers almost immediately like it knew what I needed at that time. That’s how I got to know the community, and what’s going on there, and met a lot of guys like me, building and trying to grow their startups.
It’s been just two weeks, but one clear sign that you are learning from them, is “You do not need investments or big company to build a successful SaaS app”. It’s so obvious. Guys are working on their 9/5 jobs and building their dreams afterward. You see a lot of failures and a lot of successes.
Some of them launched already 20+ apps, and just one of them worked well (yep, @marc_lou himself), another one launched 13+ apps again with few successes.
…and it clicked
Eureka
When I had a software company, I was using all the revenue and personal 9/5 income on building something new. Half of my team was always working on our internal ideas. We’ve launched 4 startups during that time, and none of them succeeded, only one of them generated 130$ revenue 😁
A lot of time and money was invested. We were designing from scratch, redesigning, adding new features, and creating v2.0 of our projects, without validating the ideas first.
Eventually, all was lost.
The indie community opened my eyes. You do not need to have a team to be able to launch and test a startup and it’s fine if your 19 ideas are total bullsh*it. 20th can be a huge success.
And when you are getting into the flow, you want to build and build and build. In the past 3 weeks, I launched 2 SaaS apps and 1 boilerplate — which will help me to launch even more and even faster ( LaraFast ) 😁. It took me just 2 hours to create RSS to Tweet with LaraFast and launch it to Product Hunt today. You can do it too.
…and it goes
I will finish this article with my favorite indie hacker’s quote.
The more we ship, the more we learn, the more we earn — Marc Lou
Cheers everybody! ✋
To be continued…
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